random images

[kitcorsa]

in my head on my zencart i have 3 images that are random image that are from a seporate image file in my template folder.

what i was thinking, is there a way in which these images ould berandom images of product we sell and if people click it will take them to the product??

[kuroi]

Yes. If you put the images into banners and locate them in the header, then Zen Cart can take care of the randomising and you can point the banners to the specific product info via the banner manager in Admin.

[kitcorsa]

that mean i would have to make a banner for every product???

i was looking for something totally automated ie like the featured product sidbar etc!

[kuroi]

In that case you have some programming ahead of you. All the code you need is already there but needs cloning and tweaking.

I'd suggest that you clone includes/modules/featured_products.php to extract your three random featured products. You'd need to adjust the number of items extracted from MAX_RANDOM_SELECT_FEATURED_PRODUCTSat present to three. You'll also want to suppress the title and some of the other data added to the text array for display.

Then clone includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_featured_products.php and change the ID and class so that you can style them differently with CSS.

Finally, inlcude the template module in your common/tpl_header.php file.

There'll probably be some tidying up needed, but that's basically it.